To: File

From: Leslie Mink

Date: May 22, 2001

Re: Summary of Spanish Creek Public Meeting on May 22, 2001

Meeting started at 6:30 pm at Quincy library. Handed out 205j grant application and asked for comments.

- County planning dept and state dept of conservation have annual gravel volume data that is a requirement of the gravel operator’s permit from lover’s leap to 70 bridge. Leslie will try and get that data.

- Flood waters rise up to the garage of the house by the confluence of Spanish and Greenhorn creeks. Creek hasn’t changed much in 50 yrs. Would like to see some flood protection. Suggestions were to remove brush accumulating at the end of the valley. That worked well when it was last done. That work would have to consider the county’s designation there as a scenic area. Another idea was to construct some type of retention basin at the top of the valley. Jim explained that the CRM has typically not addressed flood issues with projects. CRM projects remain flood neutral.

- One concern from last mtg was the bank erosion, especially at the sewage treatment ponds. QCSD has been working with other groups to seek funding for reinforcing the dykes to the ponds. Leslie will follow-up with Jim Doohan to see what sources of funding they have sought, and whether or not the CRM knows of other sources (such as Clean Water Act, point-source or emergency issue grants). This is a county and state concern.

- Cross-sections and elevations have been established from past work. Other cross-section work could be done by CRM staff funded by… perhaps county Fish and Game Commission? The budget in the draft grant has $134,000 for state-of-the-art sediment modeling. Too expensive for 205j. May just submit part of the budget for this grant. Ideal is to start upstream and work toward bottom.

- Perhaps 50 feet of bank was lost in last flood by a landowner. Suggestion that we do some preliminary work with the bars that have formed already. Shave them down and use the future deposition as a data point. This would also be a short term solution to the problem of eroding banks in the area. There’s another bar just upstream of the 70 bridge.

- There are conflicting reports as to whether or not there was Army Corps work in Spanish Cr. If they were here, they will fund a larger portion of restoration work than of they weren’t here. They did do some sewer line work by the 70 bridge.

- Can we just put some money into projects in the creek without spending so much money on studying it?

- Change wording in project description – put excessive gravel first.